Making the Grade There is an old adage, “You can please some of the people all of the time but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” (John Lydgate) All of us have a desire to please others, especially those closest to us. Some have that desire so ingrained in us that we lose our identity as a human being Linda Pastan was a woman very much of the women’s movement. The late 1970’s saw the role of women finally starting to change so that women could now work outside the home. Women were given what they wanted for a very long time except for the respect that they deserved. The mid-nineteenth century saw the women’s movement begin with the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, which after two days